Blessed Are Those Who Plant Trees Under Whose Shade They Will Never Sit

Way to go Champ! If it don't produce fruits or nuts, I don't plant it. 7,000 pecan seeds planted here on 5 acres. Now I got about 3,500 8' tall pecan trees of 6 different varieties. A lot of blood, sweat and tears but well worth it.

Well, your min reason to make this video has reached at least one person. I'm planting like 10-15 chestnuts this year, startwd from seedling. Thanks mate!

Need more people like you planting trees around the world,well done.

When I was a youngster...back in the ‘50s....my Dad would take us to the Boston Common and buy a cone of roasted chestnut from an outdoor vendor...roasted right there. So delicious fresh roasted, so delicious in Thanksgiving dressing....just so delicious...what a wonderful memory. Good luck with your venture.

I'm here in Iowa and my grandmother likes to talk about the chestnut trees that she had in her backyard growing up and how the sickness took them over. she said one tree was left. She was saying someone came from a school and took as much chestnuts as they could from her parents tree, so they could try to save the American chestnut.

You got me at "chestnut" !!! I'm looking for farm property in Maine right now and was looking at types of productive trees. I'm sold on this tree. I'm not only looking at productivity, but also heritage status and bringing back "lost" breeds/species. Thank you for all that you do.

I love lil barn cat 💕😍 I love what you’re doing with the chestnuts!

"Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands;" ~ H W Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith .

I read when the chestnuts were in bloom the hills looked like it snowed

When you’re done with the chestnuts, that barn project behind is calling. The work never ends on a farm, been there, doing that.

Hmmm, I used to think you were a quack, now I realize you're just a little nutty! Cool stuff there Morgan, I hope all goes well for your chestnut revolution! I look forward to seeing them grow, maybe chestnut trees would make a good choice for planting along the perimeter of my future horse farm paddocks.

I never knew that chestnuts were as common as apples once! I grew up my whole life without ever seeing a chestnut before. I always heard the "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" Christmas song and wondered "where are these chestnuts?!" I never knew there was a blight! That's so sad! :C Whenever I'm able to move out of the city I'll definitely plant some chestnut trees in my yard! I don't plan on having an entire farm, but a nice cottage with a garden and a few apple trees was the dream. I'll add a few chestnut trees to the list now! :D

Your land is so beautiful. I think you doing the best you can is absolutely awesome. This video was so interesting and enjoyable to see the process. I think it is wonderful that you are trying to give those chestnut trees another shot at life. 200+ seedlings amazing. You did wonderful and so exciting to see them thrive. Great video. Your enthusiasm is contagious because I can hardly wait to see the next video and updates.

My husband and I are in the planning stage of our food forest. Chestnuts are DEFINITELY on the list of foods we want. Not only are they a favorite of humans, but squirrels and deers to!

I just want to say thanks for making this video. After collecting horse chestnuts here in Berlin, Germany last autumn we watched the video and my 2 year old is obsessed with it. We watch it multiple times most days and he has even memorised the words at this stage. He has also learned a ton about the cycle of life, nature and of course chestnuts.

Mad respect for your chestnut endeavors!! Many people don't realize how much of the eastern seaboard was covered with them and how food and shelter they provided. They were the largest trees in the east. There is a group here in the mountains of NC who are trying to come up with a bought resistant native variety by many generations of cross breeding. Fingers crossed 🤞

Awesome video on the chestnuts Morgan!! So glad to see there’s still people with hope for repopulating these trees!!!

If you're interested in helping with the chestnut situation I recommend looking up the American Chestnut Foundation. They are working hard to create an American Chestnut which is genetically resistant to the blight that almost killed all of them, I'd recommend donating to them or becoming a member, their work is super important to helping our local ecosystems

My sister found two very old chestnut trees in the NY Fingerlakes area. The green casing on the nuts looks the same as the ones that dropped off my grandmother's chestnut tree in her yard. We think they are the old American chestnut tree and they survived the blight. She is starting the nuts in her refridgerator.

I'd be curious to see an update on the seedlings faired, now that we're over a year and a half since this video was posted.

I would not have thought you'd want to subject them to the shock of having the sand removed, being rinsed in water and laid out barely covered after so long being deep in damp sand. I hope you're right, but that seems like you're digging them up without expecting that their state isn't interrupted. It's a great project, I sure hope it works!

Anyone who is actively planting trees is great in my book. Nice place for your cats, too. Lovely place to live and do your thing!! Well done.

We're lucky to have quite a few wild chestnut trees growing in England but this has inspired me to plant more in 2021. I think I can easily add an extra 30 trees to the city center of my home town in 2021/2022 using this information which should make it a lot more convenient for future generations to collect the chestnuts.

Hello there. Im fouad from moroco i have seen your video about chestnut. I think its great what you are doing. I wish you all the best.😊😊 salam

In some mountainous areas in Europe, chestnut has been the base of nutrition for people since millenia. It's a great nutrient for humans and animals, easy to grow, and lasts for centuries. Saving the American chestnut tree (or eventually an hybrid) is a serious challenge for the future.

Hello.. I'm from India it's so encouraging to see your video planting chestnuts. This is a brilliant idea... The fact is that the Trees as they grow they will give good air as well. Good job! Hope to see them grow well...

10 000% sure my niece and I are going to get chestnuts off my grandfather's old property and planting them in a bucket to grow as many as possible & scatter them through the edges of our woodlands & open, abandoned fields. Thank you so much for this video, Morgan- I'll be sure to keep geo tags of where we left our seedlings so lil goose can watch 'em grow. :)

Just imagine if we all grew trees, even just to give them away. Then again it seems those that do the most talking (about climate change) do the least work. So easy to just sit back and complain and look like a 'expert' and get attention. We need more 'doer's' like this bloke. All the best from down under.

I'm currently cold stratifying some American chestnut seeds. These are the second-generation descendants of manually cross-pollinated large surviving specimens, and am getting ready to start them off indoors under grow lights so they can be transplanted in the fall. I saw the parent trees in October. It was an amazing sight. They had blight visibly growing in their bark but it wasn't killing them. Just forming cankers that would heal over. Concerning mold: Something I've been working on you might want to consider is inoculating them with mycorrhizal fungi early on. These are fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plant roots and my reasoning here is to try and fill the empty fungal niche that would otherwise be available for filling by destructive molds. I'm using potting soil and stratifying them in my refrigerator, so mold is definitely something to worry about. Just something worth potentially trying.

The fact you did this to motivate others to plant speaks volumes about you

Thank you for your efforts to bring back the wonderful chestnut trees. I miss them. I also loved watching your beautiful cat enjoying her freedom.

That turned out really well! Great job.

If you do this again next year, it's really best to plant them out into the nursery before the radicals start growing, or just after they poke through the shell. Here in northern PA that's mid March. Chestnuts (even the chinese ones) are really pretty hardy and the spring frost won't damage them. And just in case others try this, growing them in seedling trays 2" deep is a really REALLY BAD idea. Chestnuts have a serious tap root. Planting them this way will result in tiny stunted trees with their roots tangled and you'll end up with girdled trees. You need at least 1 foot of soil depth. The other option if you don't feel like having a nursery to tend is to plant them in their final location right before they start to sprout. At our nursery we grow chestnut seedlings either in ground in well cultivated beds (deep and well composted) or in air pruned beds. They'll be much more protected from early spring frost in the ground or in a big raised bed than these little trays and they'll have the room they need to grow. This first year of life for thr tree is critical and very much worth doing right. Glad you're planting trees!

Great job Sir, please keep up great work. As a chestnut lover you have no idea how much I appreciate people like you! God bless and have a wonderful harvest

"just doing the best I can". That's all you can do! Love this guy!

You achieved your goal to inspire someone! This video has inspired me to go bury some chestnuts and see if I can grow some trees!! We have 10 acres that used to be a forest, and has spent the last 20 years growing hay. It'd be nice to add some diversity back to this land!

I am so excited for you! I hope you have a lot of success with growing them out! I just got 2 bare root seeding trees this year. I love chestnuts and hope this video inspires many people to plant them!

Thanks for a great, informative video. We're going to be planting chestnuts and this was really helpful to us.

Watched the video done the same thing, with my son 6 yrs old, with great success. Thx a lot for the inspiration.

Nice! Thank you for the video! Roasted chestnuts, delicious!

Wishing you success in your chestnut venture!

Great job planting the chestnut trees! I love them!

Absolutely will be planting chestnut trees when my husband and I get our property!

Yay! For the chestnut 🌰 video.

That moldy said you had was precious. If it had survived it would have had immunity to that mold and those are the type of genetics we need in our trees. I love your videos I look forward to more

Yes, being from Pennsylvania, I am familiar with these nuts… So happy that you are doing this! And I wasn’t aware of the chestnut trees going bye-bye a lot!!! Thank you very much for this! Yes, I hope other people will be encouraged to start chestnuts and to grow chestnut trees.

I don't even like the taste of chestnuts but I want to help them recover. You have inspired me thank you! I am in PA and our chestnut trees took it SO HARD! I am going to talk to my neighbors and friends about it too.

You convinced me! Need to get some for over at my parents property.

I've heard a tremendous amount of work has gone into crossing different species (dentata or American x mollissima or Chinese) of the genus (Castanea or Chesnut) and crossing again and again until they have a blight free Castanea that is mostly dentata (American) DNA.

Chestnut tree is growing up& doing well it's just really fun watching these videos

thank you. I have a real estate client who bought an old homestead and it has some American chestnut trees on it. and she's saving the seeds... wonderful tree. also walnut, hickory, persimmon,

10:35 I have three American chestnuts that I planted about 10 years ago. They got a slow start, but are producing their first chestnuts this year. I got the seeds from eBay. A Michigan source. For the first two years of their lives they grew under the shade of a pair of Chinese chestnuts. I hope that shows that they are immune. Wouldn't it be nice? I started with 30 seeds, but only three survived after living under those trees...

How did the Chestnut trees turn out???

this video is very wholesome i love chestnuts and growing some trees of my own. I hope i have a huge Chestnut Tree in my Garden one day. Have a nice time with your trees my friend!

I am growing chestnuts too! My friend brought them from Italy to NJ 30 years ago and has a great yield every year. Thanks!

As I watch this he first of October 2019 is tomorrow. Do you have an update? How did the seedlings do? How many died off, were eaten etc. Have any pictures ?

Chestnuts were wiped from the American landscape by a fungus introduced from Chinese chestnut trees. Chinese chestnut trees have partial immunity to the fungus or immunity to the fungus. If he is planting original chestnut trees and the trees are exposed to the fungus, the trees will die. If he is using hybrids then they have a chance of producing nuts and timber.

I live in Ontario, Canada, thank you so much for your knowledge and inspiration. I picked up 18 Chestnuts, from Italy at the grocery store. I have put them into a coffee tin in sand and buried them in my garden. Will see what happens in the spring. I am planning on planting them on my Uncles 28 acres, there is just a lot of scrub there and we would like to have a variety of different trees. Thank you again Tami

LOVE this video, besides the enthusiasm and passion about chestnuts, I am excited to try this method with other nuts. Thank you for posting!

so awesome...that is one of the trees I wanted to grow. This is the only video I have seen about it too. I had no idea there was a blight....nor how large the trees were!!

I wish you the best on this. Blight is still out there. I am blessed here in Michigan and there are a couple old growth groves here that have either escaped the blight or are resistant to it. Best of luck.

My papaw has a Big European chestnut Tree in his yard and after learning about the tragedy of the American Chestnut Back when I was in school it has inspired me to start growing them like you are doing

A great video. Really enjoyed all the information you shared. Great to see they did so good in the bucket. Hopefully in the future I will plant some. Keep up the good work.

Luv ur cat helper!

One of my favorite trees! And I love eating chestnuts too.....we planted one at my mum's that is about 20 ish years old....it has no yet had any nuts...:( her neighbor has one too I will try and score a few this fall

God bless the sweet chestnut... I've always thought about growing my own. This video has inspired me!

That's such a wonderful thing to start all these trees. I'll be watching. Good luck my friend. I admire your attempt.

its not racoon that eat your sprouts its the damn skunks... they LOVE to do that. they ruined my whole hops plantation one year...thats the same year they've met mister Marlin, 22 mag marlin

Chestnut trees reminds me of two great things : - Gathering up with my family and roasting them at christmass in the fireplace - Conkers, I know it is not the same specie, but they look a bit the same, a game at school were, chestnuts were attached to a string and the goal was to destroy your opponents chestnut. I can remember going for long walks in order to find the best chesnuts How long does it take to get the first chestnuts from your seedlings ? 2, 5 10 years ?

@Gold Shaw Farm thanks for your video. I watched last year and planted the seeds last fall. Just checked my bucket and I have 6 seeds sprouting! I'll past the knowledge to my children and friends.

Me too. What a wonderful opportunity to grow beautiful trees!

Love chestnuts!! I was introduced to the glory of that tree by a book you might have or want to read, "The Overstory" by Richard Powers. Beautifully written. Where did you get your seeds? I'm in Vermont and would drive a bit to get them!

Would have been interesting to have had a test group that you left the sand on it

Great video l-- thanks for sharing. Planting trees is very rewarding.

SSuch awesome comments. So informative & heartfelt. You love what your doing and it shows it your faces. I will always love watching things grow, like your enthusiasm fur what your doing. Good work you two.

ohhh thats why they are expensive, they are very good though :D

What kind of chestnuts are you growing? Are you actually growing American Chestnuts? That would be amazing.

Ordered my chestnut trees today. Planting for deer and turkeys. Thanks for the guidance your video provided.

I’m so appreciate chestnut farms ❤❤❤❤❤❤thank you

Any updates on these chesnuts

This is awesome! I totally agree about Chestnuts! they are one of my Favorites! My bees love the flowers and make an amazing honey. I think the indescriminate chopping down of chestnut trees during the disease outbreak did more damage then the actual disease did! Same with Dutch Elm disease! they chopped every Elm Tree down whether it had signs of the disease or not. Here is a tip. When planting chestnuts plant them in groups spaced out with plantings of other types of fruit and nut trees in between! that way if a disease comes it wont wipe out all of your trees. Its always best to have mixed plantings. The mixed plantings also makes it more difficult for pests to find them. Hope this info helps. Thanks so much for sharing this video!

Checking in late ..Thanks for what you . The trees will make a. Comeback for our grandchildren

If you're interested in growing chestnuts, I recommend checking out @BuildSoil on Twitter. He talks about how useful they are as carbon sinks, sources of firewood (coppiced), and as a source of carbohydrates. He talks about how to prepare them and eat them! They're really versatile and can be made into porridge, flour, bread, pasta ... And you only need two or so trees to produce enough chestnuts to fulfill the carbohydrate needs of an adult! A great resource for anyone interested in mitigating climate change, improving the soil, or producing (at least some of) their own food and fuel! As far as I know scientists are still working on the American chestnut and its susceptibility to blight... European varieties such as Castanea sativa are resistant and can be planted and eaten just as well.

Avoid monoculture. Grow walnuts, hazelnuts, et al, trees and bushes too. Grow fruit bushes and trees as well. That will attract all the beneficial wildlife - pollinators and the insects who eat pests. Let the wildlife eat their fill and they'll fertilize your farm for the cost of some food.

I followed your instructions,here in Australia. I planted 250 nuts, kept in the refrigerator over winter and now come spring I have245 shooting nuts to plant out 👍 thank you great advice

I remember the chestnut trees from when I was a kid in Binghamton,NY and they were awesome..It broke my heart when they died..I was pretty young but I remember it well.I will definitelt start planting them after watching this video.

Holy crap, dude -- there's no room for the taproots! You've gotta plant in something with some depth!

more videos about the trees!!!! awesome thanks!

My mom would love you for this, I’m not going to lie hopefully this spring I might get something going!

Great video mate,I've just ordered 20 chestnuts to hopefully grow into trees on my farm in Leicestershire UK... Thanks for the inspiration 👍

mother nature is appreciative that's why so many sprouted for you ;) you're doing the right thing i hope you'll inspire more people to plant for the future i'm doing the same .

I planted the chestnut seeds I got from the Korean market. They are very resistant to disease, never been monsantoed , and heavenly flavored and textured. I’m also very onboard with bringing these back to America.

I bought 1.6 acres of land in the mountains of South Carolina. I haven't built my cabin, yet. But, I'm looking at growing some hardwood trees instead of the pine that's on the land. Chestnut trees fit the bill perfectly. Thank you!

Very informative. I will certainly be planting some seedlings this year. Thanks for this.

Planting 30 chestnut seedlings on my property tomorrow just thought I'd let you know you're not alone 👍

Thank you so much for the info. I am also the chestnuts lover!

I was stationed in Korea and chestnut trees are plentiful and Koreans love them. My wife is Korean and we retired from Army in 1991 and retired from civil service in 2014. We bought a 8 acre place in SE Virginia. We planted 6 trees in 2008 and now grown to provide plenty of nuts. I have started 4 more 2 years ago and they are thriving. Today, I am starting 16 seeds in pots and should be able to plant in spring. I can sell the nuts to international food marts and local Asian food stores. You can also grow in pots and sell them. In summer, the trees have a unique smell that attracts insects (mostly fire flies) for pollination. In August you can see the pointed pods and grow large by September. My wife spends a lot of time picking them up. Good luck.

man, you are really making me want to go back to that park where I saw some chestnuts already fallen on the ground and pick some up. Fresh, roasted chestnuts are so delicious! And since they're native, and several places, like my college campus, are trying to re-establish them, I don't think anyone would object to a few new trees "randomly" sprouting up...

Yes, I just bought chestnuts for growing. They are really expensive in The Netherlands. Your video came up first when I searched for it. Tnanks